Tobacco steamming and booking machine.



'No. 778,362. PATENTED DEC. 27, 1904.

P. J. HART.

TOBACCO STEMMING AND BOOKING MACHINE.

APPLIOATIQNEILBD D1'i0.31, 1903.

NI H1 I I i '3 If] iz V inoznoz k wfrJmrt Patented December 2'7, 1904.

' PATE T OFFICE.

PATRICK J. HART, OF MENDOTA, ILLINOIS.

TOBACCO ST EMMING AND BOOKING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 778,362, dated December 27, 1904. Application filed December 31, 1903. Serial No. 187,351.

To aZZ whmn it'mdy concern.-

Be it known that I, PATRICK J. HART, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mendota, in the county of Lasalle and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Tobacco Stemming and Booking Machines,

of which the following is an improvement.

This invention is an lmprovement on the I machine for which .Letters Patent were granted to me October 28, 1902, No. 711,963, and has for its object the separating of the stem from theleaf and the drawing in of the leaf between the cutters by applying extra pressure on the stem, whereby the strain of the inward pull is borne by the stem instead of the leaf, thus avoiding danger of the latter tearing.

My invention consists of a narrow strip of leather forming an endless belt, the strip being approximately the width of the stem, this strip or'belt traveling in the same direction and at the same speed as the belts receiving and booking the two halves of the leaf when stripped or stemmed and passing between the cutters under the stem and then upward, carrying the stem in a direction opposite the path taken by the leaf portion.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improvement shown applied to my booking and stemming machine, the latter being shown in'transverse section. Fig. 2 is a plan view of my machine, showing the improvement applied thereto.

Referring briefly to those parts'of the device more fully described and shown in the Letters Patent heretofore referred to, A is a suitable frame. B is one of the bookingdrums; D, the endless belts running over said drums. These'belts travel overthe rollerpulleys E G G and the tension-pulley H, the belt also passing over a guide-pulley E,

arranged above and spaced apart from the pulley E, the belts passing around the drums in traveling from pulley E to pulley E. Between the last-mentioned pulleys and parallel with them are arranged rollers K and I carrying cutting-disks K and J, respectively. Between the upper cutter and the guide-pulley E are arranged the brushes L L. These Letters Patent above mentioned.

parts are shown and described in detail and given the same reference characters in the In applying my improvement to this machine I arrange a shaft C below the tension-pulley H, and-on this shaft is arranged a pulleyC. Over this pulley runs the narrow leather belt G ,.not wider'than the largest of the tobaccoleaf stems. This belt travels upwardly from the pulley C, over the elongated pulley E, and

between the two belts D, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. It thenpasses between the cuttingrollers 1 and K and under the brush-rollers, the brushes L L being cut away to allow free passage of the belt to the pulley E and also to permit removal of the stems. After passing over the pulley E the belt passing over the pulleys G and G, returns to the pulley O, and thus passes practically entirely around the booking-machine. The leaf is inserted with the stem under the belt (I -that is, between the belt 0 and the cutter-roller K. It will be noted that the belt 0 at this pointis traveling inward. This places an extra pressure on the stemand draws the stem inward, and thus draws the leaf between the cutters, the extra pressure and pulling stress coming on the stem. When stripped, the leaves sep arate and follow the course described in the patent previously mentioned; but the stem is held by the belt 0 and carried around the roller K between the disksK and J and is then fed outwardly and ejected from the machine. -As the belt-O travels over the same pulleys as the belts D, it is obvious that it will travel in the same direction and with the same speed.

' -Having thus fully described my improvement, what-I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A booking-machine comprising cuttingrollers, endless belts spaced apart, a narrow endless belt in alinement with the'space between the two first-mentioned belts, the said belt passing between the cutting-rollers, and

means for moving all the belts in the same direction and with the same speed.

2. The combination with a booking-drum,

roller-pulleys arranged around and spaced mentioned, passing upwardly over the lower from the drum, endless belts adapted to travel roller, inwardly between the disks, and thence over the roller-pulleys and partially around upwardly, as and for the purpose deseribed. 10

the drum, and rollers carrying cutting-disks PATRLUK J. HART. 5 arranged one above the other in advance of Witnesses:

the drum, of a narrow endless belt traveling GoRHUs P. GARDNER,

over said pulleys between the two belts first GODFREY I'IOERNER. 

